Tagged sexism

Oh dear. Another ugly brute rears its head. It’s been claimed, once more, that Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who is sexist. The clickbait this time is the pseudo-scientific Bechdel test. Movies (or in this case, TV shows) pass the test, named after a cartoonist who first set out the rules in a strip called Dykes to…

Is Steven Moffat sexist? Does he find women the weaker sex that always needs a man to step in and do the hard work? Does his body of work on television reflect this? The answer is quite simply no. But there are people out there who find some of his episodes of Doctor Who, Sherlock…